Broadway revue comes to Quincy's Church of the Presidents

Jody Feinberg The Patriot Ledger

Wednesday

Aug 1, 2018 at 10:38 AMAug 1, 2018 at 4:34 PM

A bit of Broadway comes to the Church of the Presidents in Quincy Center when Broadway and national tour stars perform a concert at 8 p.m. August 4. The musical review also features 25 teenagers selected from auditions to perform with the professionals.

Presented by J.M. Productions, the concert is the first of five in the Broadway Concert Series planned through December to showcase New York City talent. Alexa Green, who won the Broadway World Award for Best New Solo Recording in 2016, starred as Glinda in the Los Angeles and San Francisco productions of “Wicked” and has performed with Patti Lupone, Neil Patrick Harris and other Broadway legends. Sydney Morton has performed in the original Broadway casts of “Memphis,” “Evita,” “American Psycho” and “Motown” and in the national tour of “Flashdance."

Some of the songs Green and Morton will sing are: "Defying Gravity” from "Wicked,” “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Miserables,” “Happy Days are Here Again” and “On Broadway.”Four of the teenagers will sing solos: “The Wizard and I” from “Wicked,” “Gimme Gimmie” from “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” “There are Worse Things I Could Do” from “Grease” and “This is the Moment” from “Jekyll & Hyde.”

The second concert on September 22 features Will & Anthony Nunziata, twin tenors and comedians who have performed throughout the country including two sold-out shows with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. The brothers, who studied music and acting at Boston College and trained with the improv comedy group Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City, can be seen this year in the new Netflix series “The Last Laugh” with Chevy Chase and Richard Dreyfuss. The remaining concerts will be announced in the fall.

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